Heritage Walking Tour: The Park at the End of the World

I've been on one of these walking tours before, and the guide is super knowledgeable, so I'm keen to venture on more of his trips - come join me! I've pasted some information about this event below. It starts at the Labia Cinema, and we head around the Company Gardens. For more details and to book tickets, please visit the website. It's R127.50 including the booking fee.

"Were you waiting around to start your Cape Town Heritage Tours adventure from the very first chapter?

Well, tarry no more because the time has finally arrived - this Sunday afternoon at 14h00 - to continue on our next triumphant circuit through the psychogeography of this pearl of a peninsula just behind the arch of the beloved Labia Theatre.

At the end of Summer, we return to the centre of our Town for arguably the best heritage walk of them all! In fact, the walk itself is a piece of heritage, bridging in just 1 km three centuries of pedestrian life at the outermost edge of this continent.

Government Avenue is, for most of us at least, the shady, sleepy shortcut separating the Mount Nelson from the lights of the CBD. But if you go through it with a sharp-eyed guide, you'll rediscover it as the very first site of struggle in the West's 'domestication' of Africa.

In fact, there is perhaps no single space in the world in which so many of the contradictions, traumas and romantic ideals of Colonialism exist side-by-side for the sake of our curiosity and critique....."